PgcEdit ver 8.0 (a DVD IFO editor) *** UPDATE *** 23 January

[r0lZ]

PgcEdit 0.6.3 released!

PgcEdit v0.6.3 release history:

• A. It is now possible to bypass a menu with buttons with Kill Playback. The user is prompted to select the button to simulate.
• A. Pgc EDitor -> Create new blank cell: New interface. It is now possible to insert the cell at the beginning of the PGC.
• E. Pgc Editor -> Create New Blank Cell: The GUI has been revamped completely. It is now possible to use an existing and referenced Cell from the original VOB file, or, as before, to create a new blank cell. The button to call this function has been renamed from "Create a new blank cell" to "Create a new cell".
• A. Pgc EDitor -> Create new blank cell and Reassign VOB/Cell ID: Option added to reuse the last tiny blank cell at the end of the VOB file (available only when that cell has been created previously by PgcEdit.)
• E. Pgc Editor -> Create new blank cell and Reassign VOB/Cell ID: There is now a Preview button in the GUI to show the selected replace cell.
• E. Jump to PGC upon DVD insert: When the target PGC is in a menu domain, the last title played before the target PGC is now always called (but not played) just before the target menu PGC so that a valid resume point exists when the menu is reached for the first time. This method should fix the (rare) problem caused by the usage of a RSM command in the menu to call the main title. Previously, the title PGC was called before the menu only when it was in the same titleset than the target menu.
• E. When importing titles in a DVD with parental managment, the user is now prompted to remove the parental managment of the original DVD, and when importing a menu, it is prompted to clear the parental managment IDs of the menu PGCs, if there are IDs in the menu.
• E. Burn DVD: Interface revamped, and new option to close automatically PgcEdit after a successful ISO creation.
• E. Burn DVD: The new ImgBurn 1.1 command lines options /CLOSESUCCESS and /WAITFORMEDIA are now used instead of /CLOSE (though /CLOSE is still used if the ISO image is burnt with DVD Decrypter.) Please note that you need ImgBurn 1.1.0.0 or the "Close ImgBurn" option will not work!
• F Burn DVD: The layer break sector passed to ImgBurn or DVDD was wrong when burning a DL DVD-R. (No problem with DL DVD+R.)
• F. Burn DVD: Changed the way the backup files are excluded from the compilation. In v0.6.2, the old method caused harmless errors when the DVD files were moved in the new VIDEO_TS directory.
• F? Burn DVD: Changed again the syntax to exclude the backup files from the compilation to avoid the mkisofs "-m" bug.
• F Burn DVD: A batch file is now always used under Windows to call mkisofs, and the mkisofs command line is split in environment variables to avoid the line too long M$-DOS bug under Win9X.
• F? Burn DVD: Redirecting stderr to stdout doesn't work under Win9X! Workaround: the output of mkisofs is not well checked under Win9X. For this reason, the user should take care of the error messages in the log!
  See the warning under Win9X when the Burn Setup dialog is opened.
• F. Burn DVD: Wrong error message when moving the backup folders in VIDEO_TS.
• F. Burn DVD: Under Windows, it is now impossible to type foreign characters in the output ISO field, because those characters are not correctly translated by MKISOFS, and therefore the file cannot be opened by ImgBurn.
• F. Kill PGC Playback: The Set, SetCLnk, CSetCLnk or CSetLNK command with a Link to a cell, program or chapter were not trapped. Now, a dialog pops up to warn the user.
• F. PGC Editor: Fixed a bug in the Cell preview: A wrong cell was shown after a Vob/Cell ID remapping.
• F. PGC Editor: Toggling the Layer Break checkbox did not change the seamless joint flag value. This bug has been introduced in v0.6.2.
• F. Command Editor - CallSS command: The option to resume at the point where the title was interupted (resume cell 0) has been removed, since this option seems illegal in all cases.
• F. Remap Titlesets: The modified JumpSS-VTSM commands in the menu buttons of the VMGM were not saved during the operation.
• W. Workaround for the pskill.exe problem with McAfee antivirus. It is now encrypted in the standalone executable, so that McAfee doesn't complain. McAfee may still complain when the real file is scanned in the bin folder.

DVDShrink plugin v1.4 released!

• DVDShrink Remote Buttons: Added the options to use the Prev Chapter button and/or the Return button to go back to the beginning of the previous title

[nwg]

Thanks for the new version.

A. It is now possible to bypass a menu with buttons with Kill Playback. The user is prompted to select the button to simulate.

That is going to be really useful.

[r0lZ]

Yeah! However, take care.

This function is made to bypass an aspect ratio or language selection menu that is called only once, at the beginning of the DVD.

You cannot bypass, say, a bonus menu to go straight to a specific bonus, because when the bonus has finished playing, the same menu will be called again, and bypassed again! Therefore, the same title will be played again and again, in an infinite loop!
However, you may bypass such a menu to return directly to the main menu, like a standard kill playback, by selecting the "return to root menu" button.

[nwg]

Yeah! However, take care.

This function is made to bypass an aspect ratio or language selection menu that is called only once, at the beginning of the DVD.

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That is the kind of menu I am using.

[blutach]

Thanks for another huge piece of work r0lZ.

Yes, by-passing with buttons was a bit of a chore before, especially where they had warnings with invisible buttons. Now we can happily edit the command to NOP, choose it and proceed.

As for AR menus, we see few here. But I leaned towards getting rid of them altogether and selecting the button in the post commands. This function will speed that process up for sure.

Regards

[r0lZ]

PgcEdit 0.6.3.1 released!

0.6.3.1 (January 29, 2005)

• F. Burn DVD: If the user cancels the layer break selection dialog, the dialog is closed, but the OK and Cancel button of the main burn dialog are still disabled. There is no way to close this dialog, and the user must kill PgcEdit.
  This problem has been introduced in v0.6.3, and is now fixed.

Thanks to Tobi for the bug repport!

[nwg]

The menu bypass works great.

I have had a couple of time where the meny bypass didn't work before. It would work in PowerDVD but when played on a DVD player. The language menu that is supposed to be hidden is still there and the button that is supposed to auto activate doesn't and it is invisible so I can't select it.

The new way is totally painless and works.

[cynthia]

Used Nero Recode to create a "merge" of three titlesets. When I open up the files in PgcEdit (I just want to create an ISO file) - this window shows up:



Could it be done to change this default OK button to a Yes/No option instead?

[blutach]

No! It should be fixed - although it is a very minor error. It is not a user choice thing. PgcEdit is doing a good thing to fix it for you. See the FAQ.

Regards

[cynthia]

But if I press that button - it will unmerge the titlesets - so I will end up with the same result as if I had used DVD Shrink instead. That is not what I want.

[blutach]

No, it won't. It simply adjusts the number of VIDs in the IFO to match the real number of VIDs. It does nothing to demux 1 title and remux it as 3.

I have done this lots and it is very safe.

Regards

[cynthia]

Ok - I'll burn it and see what's happen.

[blutach]

You can see in PgcEdit - there's still one title. It's just a tiny little part of a table in the IFO that is updated - something dvdshrink missed doing when he coded DVD Shrink. See the FAQ

Regards

[benbryant]

@cynthia

Please use DVD Shrink to open the backup that you used the Nero Recode to merge the three titlesets to see if Nero Recode really made them into 1 title. Otherwise, the time delay will still show though. The last time I did, DVD Shrink still showed 3 titles after merging with Nero Recode. Mahalo cynthia

Regards

[cynthia]

@ blutach

Yes, it worked.

@ benbryant

It's a compilation of a TV serie - so I don't mind the time delay. (It still shows up as (in this case) three titles in DVD Shrink.